Vacuity · Gojira

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 18 and 31-32, and 12 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
VACUITY · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 30, 38, 46, 54, 88 and 6 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 17 sections: 54 keep time, 12 are fills, 69 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
PART A
PART C
PART C
PART M
CHORUS
PART O
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesTOAMC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Vacuity?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Vacuity hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Vacuity?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 30, 38, 46, 54, 88 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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